Elstermühle Postberga

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The Elstermühle Postberga was located on the original course of the Black Elster between Gräfendorf and Friedrichsluga . It was one of three official mills of the Liebenwerda office, but ecclesiastically belonged to the parish of Kleinrössen.

Elstermühle Postberga around 1921

history

A mill in Postberga is mentioned for the first time in 1271. Belonging to the office of Schlieben and the manor Großrössen , the mill had four grinding courses at this time. In the same year Conrad, Count von Brehna donated the forest from the mill to the city to the citizens of the city of Herzberg , with the stipulation that the necessary construction timber for the Elstermühle from this stock must be given free of charge. In 1379, Wenzel, Duke of Saxony and Lüneburg, Burgrave of Magdeburg, confirmed the personal property prescription, presumably a pension, of Cunz von Wyrtzburg in favor of his married landlady in Postberga in the mill. It is mentioned from the year 1504 that the Liebenwerda office earned 71 bushels of grain from the Possberge mill. After a flood in 1538, a new construction of the mill was ordered the following year. The city council of Herzberg leased the mill in 1558 for 120 shock pennies and 120 bushels of grain of Liebenwerdaer Maß.

Location of the former Elstermühle Postberga on a map from 1941

Property and owner

In 1561 the mill is owned by the city of Herzberg, but lendable to the Liebenwerda office and is subject to interest. It is described with five grinding cycles and a fulling wheel. After the mill was burned down in the Thirty Years' War in 1634 , a certain Georg Müller is named as master miller in 1653. It is not known in which year the mill was rebuilt. After a request from the mayor and the council of Herzberg to cancel the lease agreement from 1558 to the elector, in 1661 the mill was bequeathed to Chamberlain Rudolf Neitschütz from Röhrsdorf "by special prince's grace without payment" and left as his property. According to the mill overview of the Electorate of Saxony from 1673, Christian Schilling is the owner of the mill. In 1690 a certain Adam, Müller zu Postberga was named. In 1694 Joh. Gottfried Liebe (zeit?), The miller at Postberga, had a son baptized. In 1698 Hans Christoph Wagner, son of Bartholomäus Wagner, master miller in the mill, who died before 1684, married Maria Wagner in Löben , the daughter of Hans Wagner, gardener and court maker in Löben. In 1703 Johann Unger, Müller zu Postberga married, and had his children baptized here between 1705 and 1714. His application to build a powder mill is rejected in 1703. In 1712, the Uebigau market mill was bought by Johann Unger. Between 1715 and 1724 Heinrich Köhler was mentioned several times in the baptismal registers as a lease miller at Postberga. Around 1730 there was a Hans Müller master miller in Postberga. On March 1, 1733, Johann Christian Wagner married Johanna Erdmuthe Müller, daughter of Hans Müller, in Postberga. His son of the same name, who was born in January or February 1733, dies in June of the same year and is buried on June 15. In 1735 Johann Christian Wagner is also mentioned as a lease miller in Neudeck . In 1766 the wife of the hereditary miller Schultze zu Postberga is godmother in Kleinrössen at Wagner. In 1775, master miller Fulte and the communities of Gräfendorf and Kölsa quarrel over free mill services. This dispute was only ended with a settlement in 1793. From 1777 to 1785, Johann Christian Fulte was an inheritance miller in Postberga. During this time the mill is described again with four grinding cycles. Johann Christian Fulte Sr. is a mill owner in 1797. In 1805 a miller upholstery is mentioned in the mill. In 1822 and 1836 mortgages were registered on the mill. In September 1827 "the Elstermühle zu Postberga near Herzberg with 4 grinding courses, a cutting and oil mill, 10 millet pounders, fishing, eel catching, distillery and liquor bar, buildings, garden, arable farming, cattle breeding and complete inventory, on which only a few taxes are liable, [ ...] voluntarily subhasted at the request of the owner . In connection with the recession negotiations, Christian Wilhelm Gottlob Richter and his wife Christiane Sophie are named as the owners of the mill in 1840. These are believed to become owners in 1829.

Technical Equipment

The Postberga watermill has been described with a constantly changing number of grinding cycles over the course of time. Initially equipped with four grinding courses, the inventory of the mill changed from these four over two to up to five grinding courses. Like many other mills on the Black Elster, the mill was operated with an undershot water wheel on a drawing board .

Others

Due to the Elster regulation , the mill was shut down in 1854. The grinding and cutting mill buildings were earmarked for demolition and sold. Wood and sandstone from the demolition of the mill were put up for auction in the newspaper in 1862 by E. Langenbaum for cash payment . At the former location of the mill, the old Elsterbrücke on the road between Gräfendorf and Friedrichsluga, only a few piles could be seen in 1929.

literature

  • Woitzik, Manfred: First come - first served
  • Förster, Eberhard: Mills between the Elbe and the Black Elster
  • Böttcher / Wilde: The mills and millers of the Düben Heath. Neustadt 2003
  • Hotzelt, Wilhelm: The family history of the barons of Würtzburg 1931
  • Home calendar Herzberg 1993
  • Our Elsterland 1933 No. 177 and 178
  • Home calendar for the Schweinitz district 1924 p. 32

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Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Karl Pallas, Herzberg p. 16.
  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Wagner: Chronical Notes on the Postberga Mill
  3. ↑ Schweinitzer Heimatbote 1926 No. 8
  4. ↑ Schweinitzer Heimatbote 1927 No. 15
  5. ↑ Mühlordnung an der Schwarzen Elster 1561, quoted from Schweinitzer Heimatbote 1929 p. 58, cf. also home calendar Schweinitz 1924 p. 32.
  6. ↑ a b Woitzik, Manfred: First come - first serve, p. 202
  7. ↑ Main State Archive Dresden Loc 33803
  8. ↑ Löben marriage register
  9. ↑ Married to a Maria Streckler; see. Martin, Siegfried: The child murder at Schöneck. Muldenhammer 2018 p. 129.
  10. ↑ http://www.von-bora.de:/ Suchliste Wagner
  11. ^ Excerpts from the Schweinitzer Kreisblatt from 1862–1870
  12. ↑ Home book of the Schweinitz district
  13. ↑ Files of the mills and grinding aisles by the same owners in the Electorate of Saxony 1673, in the Dresden State Archive Loc 33803
  14. ↑ Eberhard Förster, Annaburger Hefte, Mühlen between Elbe and Schwarzer Elster, 2006

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '22 "  N , 13 ° 15' 36"  E